step-abs.s95 available via anonymous ftp from rohan.sdsu.edu in /pub/stepinfo/1995workshop ------------------------------------------------------------ you must use a "fixed sized font" (monaco) to view this calendar July 1995 STEP Calendar Kris Stewart, STEP Program Coordinator (7/9/95) Theme: Using HTML on a stand-alone machine for Lesson prepareation and presentation Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Don Anderson|Randy S. |R. Souviney |Dave Thomas |Dave Thomas | |Welcome |Bill Barowy |Bill Barowy |Visualizat'n|Visualizat'n| |HTML begin |Modeling |wbarowy@bbn.| | | |from STEP |rsouviney@ | com |dave@mathfs.| | |page (below)| ucsd.edu |9am tea 2 fl|math.montana| | | 10| 11|photo 2pm 12|.edu 13| 14| ------------------------------------------------------------------ |Don Anderson|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow|Brian Lindow| |HTML |NESP/LLNL |URL: | | | | |lindow@nes. |nebbs.nersc.| | | | | nersc.gov | gov | | | | | |9am SDSC tea| | | | 17| 18|2nd floor 19| 20| 21| ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | |9am SDSC tea| | | | | | | | | |8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special|8 am Special| |D. Drobnis |D. Drobnis |R. Patella |McKelvey |CERFNet rep.| |Internet |Networking |Ethernet Im-|Novell Imple|Connecting | |Fundamntls24|Fundamntls25|plement 26|mentat'n 27|to I'Net 28| ------------------------------------------------------------------ drobnisd@SDSC.edu rickp@SDSC.edu The mornings will involve presentations by the speakers. The afternoons will be used for lab time for STEPpers to work with their Lead Teachers and Speaker to make advances on their lesson plans using HTML. STEP home page URL is http://www-step.ucsd.edu/ STEPpers should ask macsupport (macsupport@SDSC.edu) to handle any hardware/software issues involving the Macs in the Auditorium. Please check with your Lead Teacher first. STEP Study Groups (by email name on sdcc14): -------------------------------------------- towler: burrell,maness,wavra,falvo,hays,rossi,pucci,adorado,lgordon cox: alvarez,hoang,trieu,steinbre,corlett,dbently,rnorth zakoski:herms,oneil,caprali,heyenga,alexande,klopfens,ziegler,sbartram harlow: simonds,sixtus,parra,ball,pereira,mandrake,lawrence,kwoodwor elliott:wynn,crandall,ross,lafo,cavanaug,hamilton,vanderch STEP Special Interest Groups (SIGS): ------------------------------------ Chemistry Biology Physics Computer Science & Math - harlow and stewart San Dieguito High School has generous loaned STEP 5 IBM/PCs for use during the workshop this summer. Two of these machines have been connected to the Internet. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed Syllabus for the 1995 Summer Workshop: Theme: Using HTML on a stand-alone machine for Lesson prepareation and presentation The mornings will involve presentations by the speakers. The afternoons will be used for lab time for STEPpers to work with their Lead Teachers and Speaker to make advances on their lesson plans using HTML. Monday, July 10 Dr. Don Anderson (STEP PI, UCSD) - HTML introductions - The lessons are located on the STEP home page http://www-step.ucsd.edu/ Tuesday, July 11 and Wednesday, July 12 Dr. Randy Souviney (TEP/UCSD) and Dr. Bill Barowy (BBN, Boston) will present the Macintosh software packages "Model-It", "Star Logo" and other modeling software. They will discuss how modeling fits in to the high school curriculum and will instruct the STEP teachers in the use of these packages. This is an extension of the Community of Explorers (CoE) presentation to STEP in summer '94. Thursday, July 13 and Friday, July 14 Dr. Dave Thomas, Montana State University, will extend his summer '94 presentation on Scientific Visualization using tools available on the Internet. Dr. Thomas has taught this SciViz course via distance learning on the Internet for several years. Monday, July 17 Dr. Don Anderson continues HTML lessons Tuesday, July 18 - Friday, July 21 Brian Lindow, NERSC/LLNL, will extend his summer '94 presentation on how to use the Cray that is available to all high school teachers. Monday, July 24 - Friday, July 28 Dan Drobnis (SDSC) will present a special "break out session" giving an overview and details on the Internet and set up your own local networks. These lectures will be given 8-9:30 in room 408. If there is adequate interest from the entire group, the lectures will be moved to the auditorium. Don Anderson will continue to help STEPpers work through the self-paced HTML lessons he prepared. Preparations for SC95 and overview of the participation requests will be reviewed. The two proposed hands-on workshops are given below: ================================================================= Good morning Barb, (barb helland, Ames Lab, Ames, Iowa) I'm enclosing the descriptions of the two workshops that STEP (supercomputer teacher enhancement program) would like to present at Supercomputing '95 for the K12 education sessions on Sunday and Monday. We were also fortunate to meet with John Ziebarth for about an hour on Thursday (6/22), so that John could meet his "local contact" group: Dr. Bob Dean (STEP co-PI with Dr. Don Anderson) Jayne Keller (Education Outreach Coordinator at SDSC) Olin Elliott (STEP Lead teacher and Math/Physics Teacher at Mountain Empire High School in San Diego county) During the discussions with John Z. it came up that he was also planning to have "High School Day" on Wednesday during the SC95 week. When speaking with his "local contact group", the possibility of having a extra day (on Thursday) and keeping the computer labs was discussed. I'm bringing all this up because on each of the abstracts below, there are more than one presenter listed. STEP can offer to present these two workshops on the Sunday/Monday labs where the folks that John Ziebarth ends up supporting to attending SC95 are going. Additional, a slightly modified version of the workshops can be presented on the Wednesday/Thursday sessions to a more general audience, if that is what the SC95 committee would like. Since we are local, we would like to help out as much as possible. We envisage the session would contain: 1) formal presentation of materials using the projection system 2) handson lab work for the SC95 participants using the lesson plans discussed in the abstracts 3) discussion time, where we would like to have additional members of the STEP group in the Lab to offer their personal stories about how they have been incorporating computational science in their high school classrom. Feedback is always appreciated Barb, so let me know what additional information you might need. thanks kris ------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 95 15:11:27 PDT To: stewart@saturn.sdsu.edu From: towler@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Tim Towler) Subject: Web Browser/Computational Science Session SC95 Cc: harlow@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, towler@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, elliott@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu, zakoski@sdcc14.ucsd.edu Title: Using a Web Browser as an Educational Tool in Computational Science Presenters: Tim Towler - Biology Teacher, San Diego High School San Diego, California Lead Teacher - Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) Dave Harlow - Computer Teacher, Gompers Secondary School San Diego, California Lead Teacher - STEP Olin Elliott - Math & Physics Teacher, Mountain Empire High School Pine Valley, California Lead Teacher - STEP Target Audience: Advanced 6-8 & 9-12 Hardware Needs: Macintosh Computers with 16 Mb of RAM (or 8 with RAM Doubler). Computers are on the Internet. High Intensity Overhead Projector & Screen. Software Needs: NCSA Mosaic or Netscape 1.1N Sparkle JPEG View Simple Player Sound Machine Gif Converter Simple Text NIH Image 1.57 HTML Editor 1.0 Description: A Web Browser may be used on a stand alone or networked machine to present a lesson using Computational Science tools. A Web Browser can be used to: 1) Introduce an activity, such as describing the collection of satellite data of sea surface temperature and information contained within that data. 2) Explain how to complete and interpret the information in the activity, such as measuring parts of the image, making comparisons between data sets and interpreting the results. 3) Direct the student to complete the activity using a separate application such as NIH Image. 4) Bring closure to the activity by summarizing and reviewing. Participants will work through a lesson using scientific visualizations on a stand alone machine and over the Internet. They will develop a subject specific lesson that can be used in their classroom. They will use information gathered via a Web Browser over the Internet. Participants will be given a template based on the demonstration lesson to help them. Materials available to take home: Printed tutorial. Bring disks for: Electronic copy of lessons in Biology, Physics & Chemistry. Template files of HTML pages used for the lesson. Shareware HTML Editor. Web Browser. NIH Image. ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:30:26 -0800 To: "stewart@cs.sdsu.edu (Kris Stewart)" From: cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Hal Cox) Subject: The Real, Final, Terminal Input for SC95 Cc: cox@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Hal Cox) Title: Presentation of Staff Inservice on Internet Research for K-12 Educators - A Sample Program for Training Presenters: Hal Cox - Physics Teacher, Hoover High School, San Diego,CA Lead Teacher - Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) Bob Zakoski - Chemistry Teacher, San Dieguito High School, Encinitas,CA Lead Teacher - STEP Target Audience: Advanced K-12 Hardware Needs: Macintosh Computers capable of running the Software and connected to the Internet High Intensity (5000 Lumen) Overhead Projector and Screen Software Needs: Netscape, Mosaic, Mosaic and Netscape helper applications and Eudora 1.5.2 Brief Description of Session: This Session answers the question, "How do I introduce networking tools and skills to the Faculty at my school?" The presenters, based on their experience in conducting two years of staff development, will give you their ideas of how to do this. Web Browsers have become a primary tool for doing Internet research in K-12 schools. Staff development is a concern at all sites, and teachers who lead this training usually have much to do other than teaching Internet Workshops. Having a prepared sample inservice program will be a great aid for these teachers. This session will provide a program that can be used to train staff in the use of the Internet as a research tool. There will be a formal presentation and a hands-on lab where participants will work through portions of STEP lesson plans for Staff Inservice Training. The session will address how the following staff development topics could be presented to your staff: -Overview and Introduction to Internet and Networking -Electronic Mail -Internet Navigation Handouts and materials: - Printed copy of the lesson plans - Bring Macintosh disks for: Electronic copy of the lesson plans Shareware Web Browsers.